by Annette | Jul 2, 2013 | Romance Writing, The Creative Process, Tools & Resources
One of the fun aspects of being a writer are those days, weeks, and if you’re lucky – months, where your imagination is full of ideas. It may not happen often. However, when it does happen why not capitalize on it? Many writers feel the need to focus on...
by Annette | Jun 28, 2013 | Romance Writing Career, The Creative Process, Tools & Resources
A few weeks ago I shared a post about creative confidence or in our very specific case, writing confidence. Every single author has daily struggles with confidence and my experience at the Crested Butte Writer’s Conference last weekend only solidified my belief...
by Annette | Jun 4, 2013 | Romance Writing, The Creative Process
What’s the fundamental difference between having confidence and not having it? It’s mindset, right? Whether or not you feel confident has everything to do with how you think and what you believe about your writing skills and about yourself as a person. Now before we...
by Annette | May 24, 2013 | Romance Writing Career, Romance Writing Craft, The Creative Process, Tools & Resources
What part of your manuscript gives you the most trouble? Idea – Some romance writers struggle with the idea phase. They just don’t know what to write about. That’s one of the reasons I wrote 1001 Story Starters and the shorter .99 genre specific story starter...
by Annette | Dec 28, 2012 | Romance Writing, Romance Writing Career, The Creative Process, Tools & Resources
Do you have big plans for 2013? Is it the year you’re finally going to finish that novel? Submit to agents and editors, or maybe you’re going to venture into the self publishing world. It’s a clean slate and a brand new year – you can...
by Annette | Dec 27, 2012 | The Creative Process
So here’s the proof for my new book cover. What do you think? Feedback welcome, but be nice. I didn’t create the cover, but I love the person who did. Constructive feedback only, please.
